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Submitted to Contest #321
The tricky thing about shadows is that they’re persistent. Oftentimes physically impossible to escape save for being in some very specific circumstances. The figure in her periphery is one such shadow, flowing in and out of the darkness. ‘And he will not notice any sort of…’ The voice makes her tune back into the conversation. A woman in her forties, neatly dressed in business casual with her hair in an up-do where the humidity is winning it from the hairspray. She waves her hands around, palms up. Lines of tension around her eyes betray her...
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